Card game accessory



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Inventor Patented June 7, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT @FFEQE.

CARD GAME ACCESSORY This invention relates to a card game accessory for use in the playing of bridge and has for its primary object to provide, in a manner as hereinafter set forth, a device of this character on which the declarer may conveniently indicate the cards comprising his hand and then pass said device to his partner, the dummy, who may then keep track of the cards as they are played from the hand of the declarer. thereby greatly increasing the interest and pleasure of the game to the player holding the dummy hand.

Other objects of the invention are to provide a card game accessory of the aforementioned character which will be simple in construction, strong, durable, highly efiicient and reliable in use, compact, light in weight, attractive in appearance and which may be manufactured at low cost.

All of the foregoing and still further objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from a study of the following specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, and wherein:

Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of a card game accessory constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is a view in side elevation thereof.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary view in vertical section, taken substantially on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary view in vertical section, taken substantially on the line 44 of Fig. 1.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of an end portion of one of the cover strips.

Figure 6 is a fragmentary view in horizontal section, taken substantially on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1.

Figure 7 is a detail View in perspective of an end portion of one of the spacers or guides.

Figure 8 is a detail view in perspective of one of the slides.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, it will be seen that the embodiment of the invention which has been illustrated comprises a substantially rectangular board I of any suitable material. Mounted transversely on the board I are spaced, parallel guides 2 having formed therein vertical slots 3 extending from their upper edges to a point adjacent the lower edges thereof. Mounted on the guides 2 are cover strips 4 having vertically elongated openings 5 therein communicating with the slots 3. The elongated openings 5 are of less width than the slots 3 and ichmond Heights, Mo.

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the ends of said openings 5 are spaced from the upper and lower edges of the strips 4. The elements 2 and 4 are also of any suitable material and said elements are secured in position by any suitable means, such as through the medium of an adhesive.

Mounted for vertical sliding movement in the slots 3 of the guides 2 and adapted to project above said guides are slides 6 which are also of any suitable material. The slides 6 are operable beneath the cover strips 4. Fixed on the lower end portions of the slides B are operating buttons 1 or the like which travel in the elongated openings 5.

On the board I and adapted to be observed through the slots 3 and the openings 5 of the elements 2 and 4, respectively, are symbols 8 of the cards comprising a bridge deck. Adjacent the left hand end of each transverse row of the symbols 8 is a symbol 9 designating the suit of that row. It will be observed that the transverse rows of symbols 8 represent each of the four suits of the deck of cards. Of course, each suit comprises 13 cards from the ace to the deuce. Adjacent the upper edges of the cover strips l symbols 10,. corresponding to the symbols 8, are provided on the board i.

It is thought that the manner of using the device will be readily apparent from a consideration of the foregoing. When the declarer has obtained the contract he pushes the slides 6 upwardly in a manner to expose the symbols 8 corresponding to the cards comprising his hand and then passes his device to the dummy. The symbols l0 assist the declarer in locating the correct slides 5 to be elevated. The operating buttons l of the slides 5 limit the movement of said slides in opposite directions by engagement with the ends of the elongated openings 5. After thus obtaining the device the dummy may conveniently follow the play by moving the elevated slides downwardly to cover the symbols 8 as the cards are played.

It is believed that the many advantages of a card game accessory constructed in accordance with the present invention will be readily understood and although a preferred embodiment of the device is as illustrated and described, it is to be understood that changes in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to which will fall within the scope of the invention as claimed. For example, the symbols 8 may be placed on the slides 6 and be so located as to be concealed beneath the cover strips 4 when said slides are pulled downwardly as the cards are played.

What is claimed is':-

A card game accessory comprising a board having symbols thereon representing the cards comprising the suits of a deck, guides mounted on the board and having slots extending thereinto from one edge thereof, said slots exposing the symbols, strips mounted on the guides and 10 having elongated openings therein communicating with the slots, the symbols being observable through said openings, and slides operable in the slots of the guides beneath the strips and adapted to conceal the symbols, the elongated openings being of less width than the slots, said slides including upstanding operating buttons operable in the elongated openings, the board further having symbols thereon adjacent the strips :and cor-' responding to the first named symbols.

RICHARD F. WILD. 

